Assassination of Charlie Kirk Shocks the World
The assassination of the founder of conservative youth organisation, Turning Point USA, has been denounced across the political spectrum and sheds further light on the deep social divisions within the United States. The 31-year old – who expressed anti-immigration and...
The Ease With Which Criminals Acquire Firearms Renews Calls for Additional Safeguards
A recent investigative report suggests that, despite Australia’s stringent firearm control laws, safety gaps have enabled legally obtained firearms to slip into the hands criminal groups - renewing debate about the level of regulation, monitoring and control required to increase...
Police Should Target Sovereign Citizens and Other Right-Wing Extremists, Not Muslim Youths
Recent decades have seen a heavy law enforcement focus on the Muslim community over fears of terrorism offences, with raids by heavily-armed law enforcement officers on hundreds of homes across the nation without corresponding criminal charges, the monitoring, targeting and...
Firearms in Australia: The Tension Between Ownership and Control
The massacre in Port Arthur in Tasmania on 28 April 1996 was the impetus for the Howard government to pass laws to restrict the ownership of firearms in Australia. But the tension between the ability to own firearms and the...
Politicians Posture as Protectors of the Public, Primarily for Political Purposes
New South Wales premier Chris Minns has supported calls made by other politicians for a parliamentary inquiry to uncover potential victims of the man dubbed the “backpacker killer”, Ivan Milat, who passed away from stomach cancer in 1999 after being...
NSW Government Tightens Working With Children Checks
The New South Wales government is enacting laws which aim to prevent individuals who are seen as posing a risk to the safety of children from working in child-related employment. The enabling law - known as the Child Protection (Working...
Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia
There has been considerable media reporting in recent times regarding the systemic problems in Australian childcare centres - from rampant neglect, physical and sexual abuse of children, to a lack of training, to insufficient staffing and inadequate staff training, and...
NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman
Two New South Wales police officers have pleaded guilty to criminal offences after their body worn cameras filmed them approaching a naked 48-year old woman who was clearly in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping...
What Are the Billing Targets for Lawyers in Australia?
A study conducted earlier this year by the Australian Financial Review (AFR) found that first-year lawyers in some of Australia’s biggest law firms are expected to bill 6.5 to 8+ hours a day, which equates to 32.5 to 40+ hours...
Couple Imprisoned for Contempt After Breaching Supreme Court Order
A married couple who reject the rules, regulations and laws that apply across society on the basis they are ‘sovereign citizens’ has been sentenced to 30 days of imprisonment after they continued to publish defamatory material about a lawyer despite...
